Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1911 — HONESTY OF THE CHINESE [ARTICLE]

HONESTY OF THE CHINESE

Always Pay for Being Smuggled Into This Country Even If Sent Back. “A talk with any smuggler who ever engaged in the business of bringing Chinese into the United States contrary to the immigration laws will suffice to establish the Chinaman’s proverbial honesty tn business transactions,” said Guy E. Runyan of Detroit ■■", ‘T know of one old French Canadian who in his younger days was a professional smuggler and operated on thq Canadian border. He did not deal in furs or any articles of eomseroe. He made a practise of smuggling Chinamen across the border, and according to his own statement amassed enough money to set himself up in a comfortable business. “He has often said that the duty of a professional smuggler ended when the Chinaman was landed on the sot! of the United States. Then it was that the smuggler got his money. After that it did not fall to him to look out for the Oriental who had been his charge. Ninety-niUe times out of a hundred the Chinaman was apprehended and sent back to his former abode by the Immigration authorities. “Nevertheless the smuggler received h»U pay. Never, according to the story told me by the old man and fiutnerous others who have been connected in different ways with the smuggling of Chinamen, has there been known an instance where the smuggler was defrauded of the price promised him. :This illustrates the predominant trait of honesty in the Chinese character.”